Mars called for continued regulatory alignment and said the cost of divergence in environment and food processing standards could be huge

What’s the problem here? If you’re producing something for export, you do it to the standards of the importing nation. If you’re producing for domestic consumption, you match the domestic standards. The Japanese have managed to do this with cars for quite some time now.

Agammamon, Niall Ferguson suggests that one of the factors which led to the historic advancement of Europe, compared to China China, say, was the antagonism between nation states. Which would suggest EU harmonisation could be a mistake. ISTM it all depends on an optimum size.

‘The government has banned Canadian right-wing activist and journalist Lauren Southern from Britain, being held at Calais just days after Austrian activist Martin Sellner and author Brittany Pettibone were refused entry at Heathrow.’

‘The pair were then placed in detention, where they waited to be deported along with other foreign nationals after being served Home Office papers explaining Generation Identity “is viewed in the UK as a right wing organisation”’